Originally Posted by
staircase
Now to ramp up the discussion a bit I ask how much did you learn from those basic exercises?
Having worked my way up the QFI tree, the longer I was involved, the more I became of the opinion that Bloggs learned as much by 'look see' and a certain basic ability than by the giving of exercises 1 through to 9.
Well, It's difficult to say. I learned how to fly safely round the circuit! Having been an instructor/examiner for a number of years, I think it's not what I learned but how that is the major change. There was some pretty good instructing but there was also some appallingly bad instructing. The style was very formulaic and possibly a bit lazy as the RAF could simply replace students who failed.